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Afghan health workers administer polio vaccination to children in Kandahar Credit: MUHAMMAD SADIQ/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock  A long-running Taliban ban on door-to-door polio vaccination teams means that one-in-three Afghan children are still not getting polio drops, creating a vulnerable pool of millions where the virus could run riot. Three years after the militants banned house-to-house health teams operating in their territory, the edict remains in force and means around 3.4 million under-fives ...

10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H. (Adds details, quote from UNICEF) By Ahmed Sultan and Orooj Hakimi JALALABAD/KABUL, April 1 (Reuters) - The killing of three female polio vaccine providers in Afghanistan this week has forced aid agencies and the government to re-assess field postings for thousands of female medics at a time when nearly 10 million Afghan children need polio drops. Officials at the United Nation Childrens Fund (UNICEF), one of the agencies helping in the large-scale polio vaccination driv...

Afghan polio vaccine drive in trouble after three female medics killed 10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H. By Ahmed Sultan and Orooj Hakimi JALALABAD/KABUL, April 1 (Reuters) - The killing of three female polio vaccine providers in Afghanistan this week has forced aid agencies and the government to re-assess field postings for thousands of female medics at a time when nearly 10 million Afghan children need polio drops. Officials at the United Nation Childrens Fund (UNICEF), one of the agencies helping in...

Publishing date: Apr 01, 2021  •  2 days ago  •  3 minute read  •  Article content JALALABAD/KABUL — The killing of three female polio vaccine providers in Afghanistan this week has forced aid agencies and the government to re-assess field postings for thousands of female medics at a time when nearly 10 million Afghan children need polio drops. Officials at the United Nation Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF), one of the agencies helping in the large-scale polio vaccination drive acros...

Afghan polio vaccine drive in trouble after three female medics killed About 70,000 staff, including vaccinators, are involved in implementing polio campaign, of which about 40% are women Reuters April 01, 2021 Men pray in front of the coffin of one of three female polio vaccination health workers who were shot and killed by unknown gunmen at two separate locations in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 30, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS JALALABAD/ KABUL: The killing of three female polio vaccine providers i...